"Loading citation database" forever

[abunavas]

Hi, I copy my .bib file in Vault and when I Ctrl+Shift E for the first time there is "Loading citation database" forever.

Any help, please?

The same file works perfectly in Sublime zk

[folalc]

same issue too

[pickleton89]

you may have the wrong citation database format selected in plugin.

[hans]

Hi all, if you're still experiencing this issue, can you open the Obsidian developer console (Ctrl+Shift+I) and then reload obsidian (Ctrl+R)? Please watch the console (in the lower right) and let me know if you see any error messages appear here. Thanks!

[sahmoli]

Hi all, if you're still experiencing this issue, can you open the Obsidian developer console (Ctrl+Shift+I) and then reload obsidian (Ctrl+R)? Please watch the console (in the lower right) and let me know if you see any error messages appear here. Thanks!

After I tried this, it still said "loading citation database. Please wait..."

[oldjove]

I had this issue too. I think it has something to do with using a relative path for the citation database. I have found that removing the initial forward slash of the path solves the problem:

i.e. instead of /path/more path/database.bib, I changed to path/more path/database.bib

This seems "wrong" to me, but it still works.

[shazra]

i have this issue. too. Did this:

**Update: Resolved. My filepath is wrong. i followed this tutorial: Citations Plugin in Obsidian - How to use

Hi all, if you're still experiencing this issue, can you open the Obsidian developer console (Ctrl+Shift+I) and then reload obsidian (Ctrl+R)? Please watch the console (in the lower right) and let me know if you see any error messages appear here. Thanks!

Here is what I got:

If you could kindly point out, where did I go wrong?

[songweige]

I ran into the same issue previously when I manually created my .bib / .json files in Obsidian. With the suggestion from @hans, I found the issue to be that the files created in Obsidian are Markdown format with extension .md, which covered the correct extensions. Removing ''.md'' fixed my problem.

[radiobed]

I got this to work by removing a trailing space in the citation filename. It was there by mistake but hard to see (the developer console helped!).

[divigon]

I had this issue having my .bib file and vault located on iCloud Apple cloud storage service.

The path to any file inside iCloud is truly complicated. I was able to find the path of my .bib file in iCloud creating a fake new vault in the same folder of my .bib file. Obsidian shows the path to the vault in the "Open vault" dialog box. So I copied this path in the citations plugin config, and then deleted the fake new vault.

Another related issue is that, although I was able the first time to copy my .bib file in iCloud into a folder inside my vault, later it wasn't possible. I don't know the reason why. Nowadays I am not able to copy the .bib file inside the vault and I have it on the iCloud higher folder.

[sknecht]

removing the / prefixing the path did the trick for me -- loading smoothly now

[elsehow]

@sknecht This worked for me too.

I think the plugin could give a more useful error message when the .bib file isn't found. The error displays in the JavaScript console - it should be displayed in the plugin, too, instead of having the endless loading spinner.

[sentient-codebot]

Just a reminder. From my own experience, file names (not sure about folder names, but could be the same) with spaces couldn't be resolved. So "My\ Library.bib" won't be found.